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The CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage novel about disgraced MI5 agents who inadvertently uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies. The disgruntled agents of Slough House, the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty, are called into action to protect a visiting Russian oligarch whom MI5 hopes to recruit to British intelligence. While two agents are dispatched on that babysitting job, though, an old Cold War-era spy named Dickie Bow is found dead, ostensibly of a heart attack, on a bus outside of Oxford, far from his usual haunts. But the head of Slough House, the irascible Jackson Lamb, is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets that seem to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, who is either a Soviet bogeyman or the most dangerous man in the world. How many more people will have to die to keep those secrets buried?
This is your classic slow burner of a book, please don't get me wrong in no way is the book boring. Clever engaging and interesting from the start, but about half way through I could not turn the pages quick enough, as the mystery suspense and tension ratcheted up. Quality writing and superb characterisation throughout. Completely and utterly recommended. ( )
2. del af Slagteheste. Igen en fantastisk spionhistorie med referencer til gamle sovjetagenter. Persongalleriet er i top. Oplagt til fans af Le Carre. ( )
Third in the Slough House series (I've read the first so far) which I discovered thanks to the Apple TV+ adaptations. I love the series, and am equally impressed by the source material. In this volume the Slow Horses once again become pawns in the game of the high and mighty in Regents Square and Whitehall. ...and once again the unlikely rag tag band of failed spies come out ahead. A little grittier and more local than the adaptation, this is beautifully written, a seedy world inhabited by flawed characters. I think Mick Herron is the 21st Century's answer to John LeCarre. Highly recommended. ( )
Because I enjoy the Slow House series on AppleTV so much, I decided to try reading the books. This is the second in the series. I absolutely love the books, and they are better than the series, which I love as well. In this book Jackson Lamb and his intrepid fleet of misfits, are on the tail of an old Soviet spy from the Cold War. Each member of the team is on their own separate mission to determine what is going on after an old spy is found dead on a London bus, apparently the victim of a heart attack. Based on the piece of paper that is found on the body, Jackson Lamb knows that there is much more to this story than what it appears. He sends River Cartwright to the Cotswolds near an old, probably defunct air base. Two other "slow horses" are sent into the heart of London to try to track an old Soviet spy that no one is convinced is still alive. Jackson Lamb, meanwhile, digs deep into his prodigious memory from the Cold War, and taps into some old allies that were familiar with the politics and spy craft from that time. Far be it for Lamb to tell his band of reprobates what it is he's looking for, so it's not a surprise when they all find themselves in all kinds of trouble. But, misfits that they are, this crew of Lamb's finds themselves in very scary situations, and they manage to turn it all around, spin it inside out, until they get to the heart of the problem. I highly recommend this series. The characters are believable and the plots have more twists and turns than you really expect going in. Wonderful series, and the television series manages to get very close to the original intent of the author. Highly recommend. ( )
In the opening chapter of Herron’s funny, clever sequel to 2010’s Slow Horses (2010), low-level British spy, Dickie Bow, dies on a bus to Oxford of apparently natural causes. To Jackson Lamb, the thoroughly unlikable head of Slough House (“the spooks’ equivalent of Devil’s Island,” to which disgraced or out-of-favor British spies are exiled), Bow’s death plus a cryptic, unsent text keyed into his cellphone (the single word “cicadas”) suggest Russian intrigue, perhaps tied to a long-dormant, possibly mythical, spy named Alexander Popov. Meanwhile, two Slough House operatives are seconded to the job of protecting a Russian billionaire, Arkady Pashkin, in London for a nebulous meeting. The complex plot drags a bit in the middle, as Herron gets quite a number of balls in the air, but once he does, the narrative picks up real steam and becomes genuinely thrilling. The novel is equally noteworthy for its often lyrical prose.
adicionado por VivienneR | editarPublisher's Weekly(Feb 1, 2013)
The CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage novel about disgraced MI5 agents who inadvertently uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies. The disgruntled agents of Slough House, the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty, are called into action to protect a visiting Russian oligarch whom MI5 hopes to recruit to British intelligence. While two agents are dispatched on that babysitting job, though, an old Cold War-era spy named Dickie Bow is found dead, ostensibly of a heart attack, on a bus outside of Oxford, far from his usual haunts. But the head of Slough House, the irascible Jackson Lamb, is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets that seem to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, who is either a Soviet bogeyman or the most dangerous man in the world. How many more people will have to die to keep those secrets buried?
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Completely and utterly recommended. (